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Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd - Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity (Hardcover)
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Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd - Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity (Hardcover)
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This book demonstrates that Albert Camus' concept of absurdity is
best understood when decoupled from what might be called its
ontological aspirations. Rather than pretend that absurdity
usefully describes 'the human condition,' 'the silence of god,'
'the deprivation of transcendence,' or 'metaphysical revolt,' I
argue that, for absurdity to be a fruitful idea, it must be
approached as a psychological disposition and its basic tenets must
be translated into phenomenal and psychological language. The book
defines the particular psychological disposition of absurdity by
analogizing it with the constructs of ambivalence, integration,
conscious resistance, and creativity. Its central contention is
that absurdity may be interpreted as a kind of ambivalence and,
thus, as an aspect of psychological experience that demands a
creative and mature response. Absurdists' cries of spiritual
anguish need not persuade us that the conditions of loss, terror,
alienation, and deprivation they describe are objectively 'real'.
If, instead, descriptions of absurdity may be understood as
psychological accounts of the powerfully ambivalent impulses toward
merger and toward separateness, toward group-immersion and toward
subjectivity, then absurd revolt involves recognizing, resisting,
and integrating such impulses in order to facilitate mature ethical
action. It may be possible, I argue, by examining the dynamics of
absurdity, ambivalence, resistance, and creativity, to develop a
new grounding for an absurd political morality. This book asks what
unique properties and advantages this renewed political morality
offers and applies this grounding to some of the political and
moral crises of Camus' time and of our own.
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